Medium's pitch has always been distribution: write, and its recommendation algorithm and existing readership do the work of finding you an audience that a brand-new blog doesn't have. That's real and worth something. It's also a different bet than owning your own domain's search equity, and the two pull in different directions.
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What Medium gets right
Zero setup — sign up and start writing in a clean, distraction-free editor. Medium's Partner Program offers direct monetization based on member engagement, and custom domain mapping is available again (Medium reintroduced it, currently free with an active membership), so a returning limitation from a few years ago is no longer as much of a blocker as it once was.
The built-in audience is the real differentiator: a well-received post can get surfaced to readers who were never looking for your blog specifically, something almost no self-hosted option can offer on day one.
Where it costs you
Even with a custom domain connected, your content lives inside Medium's platform and editor — not as files you own, version, or can move freely without an export step. Medium's paywall (the metered "member-only" system) can also limit how many readers actually see a post depending on their membership status, which cuts against the free, open discoverability a search engine send you. And Medium's recommendation algorithm, not your own domain's accumulated authority, is doing a meaningful share of the distribution work — valuable while it's working in your favor, but not something you control.
Where Blogizi differs
Blogizi starts from the opposite assumption: your content is a Markdown file you own from the start, hosted on your own domain (or a Blogizi subdomain), with SEO value accruing to you rather than shared with a platform. blogizi publish path/to/post.md is the entire publish step — see blogging from your terminal — and sitemaps, canonical URLs, and OG images are handled automatically, covered in the technical SEO checklist.
The actual decision
Pick Medium if: built-in discovery matters more to you right now than owning your SEO outright, and you're comfortable with your content living inside someone else's platform.
Pick Blogizi if: you want long-term search value to build on your own domain, and you'd rather own your posts as portable files from the first one you publish.